User Guide

CreatingaNewLibrary
Click on the File/New/Library menu in the EAGLE Control Panel. The
LibraryEditorwindowappears,containinganewlibrary, untitled.lbr.
It is, of course, also possible to expand an existing library. In that case
you would use File/Open/Library to select the library you want, or you
would click on the Libraries entry in the Control Panel’s tree view, se
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lecting the desired library with a click of the right mouse button. This
will open a context menu, one of whose options is Open. The Library
Editorisopened.
DrawingthePin-LeadedPackage
The component is manufactured in a pin-leaded package. This is a
DIL-14 housing with a pin spacing of 2.54 mm (0.1 inch) and a width of
7.62mm(0.3inch).
If there is a suitable package in another library, it can be copied into the
currentlibrary.Anewdefinitionwouldnotbenecessary.
DIL-14datasheet
Click on the Edit a package icon in the action toolbar, and enter the
name of the package in the New box of the Edit menu, which is DIL-14
in our present example. Click on OK, and confirm the question Create
newpackage‘DIL-14’? byanswering Ye s.
ThePackageEditorwindownowopens.
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ComponentDesignExplainedthroughExamples